In 2017, the US-based Ambazonia Interim Government (The IG), banned French Cameroun’s ruling political party, the CPDM, in the Southern Cameroons. The IG advanced that the CPDM is a syndicate with links to organized crime and terrorism. Since that historic pronouncement from The IG, many Southern Cameroonian criminals have moved base to French Cameroun for fear of facing Southern Cameroon’s free and fair legal system. One of such self-exiled creatures is a certain Michael Mbi Oruh, a fully paid-up member of the CPDM crime syndicate who unscrupulously usurped the throne as Chief of Mkpot village in Manyu County on Saturday 7 April 2007.

Since the declaration of Ambazonia independence in October 2017, he has played a role as a principal facilitator of extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity by the French Cameroun savage military in a place he ironically calls his village- Mkpot. Mr. Orock Thomas Enow and Mr. Tambe John Ojongmbang are his latest innocent victims that were shot and killed in summary execution-style in the early hours of Sunday 20 December 2020 in Mkpot village in Manyu County. Before their extermination, this illegal and criminal Chief of Mkpot and his numerous informants led by Mr. Egbe John Besong on different occasions, orchestrated and facilitated the extrajudicial killings of Mr. Ako Benedict Ako, Mr. Bate Joseph aka Best Joe, Mr.Ayuk Peter Nayongoh, Mr. Awa Armstrong, Mr. Besong Valderama Takor, and Manyor Ntui by the French Cameroun military.

Chief Michael Mbi Oruh, a common criminal and a career liar with deception oozing from every word he utters and action he takes, attained his traditional title through the support of French Cameroun’s dubious colonial administrators. The fake master’s degree holder and former stooge at the Ministry of Commerce and Industrial Development of French Cameroun dubiously took over the throne with the aid of the colonial Divisional Officer of Eyumojock after the death of Chief Emmanuel Agbor Akat, who died under suspicious circumstances in 2002. He was imposed on the people of Mkpot by DO Divine Kamara Kamara as per Protectoral Order No 045/2006 duly signed by the Prefect of Manyu Division.

Chief Michael Mbi Oruh was seen by many as the prime suspect in the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate death of the late Chief Emmanuel AgborAkat. Michael Mbi Oruh was not the natural and rightful person to succeed the late chief but was forced to represent his selfish interest and that of his CPDM masters at all cost against the will of the people and ancestors of Mkpot. By his criminal activities since sitting on the throne, the legitimate concerns of our ancestors and the people of Mkpot are unfortunately coming to fruition.

Michael Mbi Oruh and other members of the CPDM crime syndicate shamelessly confessed to the media immediately after his installation that he is not the rightful person to succeed Chief Akat but he had to take charge. “I thank God I have been chosen because according to the tradition it is not the time for my family to be Chief. By all standards, I am not supposed to be Chief” Mbi Oruh confessed to Elvis Tah of Postnewsline. “I thank God for him, because, just as he said, his family had no legitimate chance to the throne” DO Divine Kamara Kamara concurred.

Immediately after his installation as chief of Mkpot, Michael Mbi Oruh embarked on full-blown greed, deceit, abuse, and exploitation of the inhabitants of his village. This wretched piece of misery manipulated poor villagers and took over their building lands, agricultural properties especially cocoa, coffee, and palm plantations for little or no returns, thus depriving many of any sustainable source of livelihoods. The Ambazonian war of independence provided an opportunity for many indigenes of Mkpot to free themselves from increasing servitude under Chief Mbi Oruh and the CPDM hegemony. However, it also presented a golden opportunity for this malicious, first-division stationary bandit to use the savage French Cameroun military to exterminate those who protested against his forced and ill-gotten enthronement as the chief of Mkpot.

Indigenes of Mkpot village supporting the legitimate and inalienable right to self-determination of the people of Southern Cameroons have been attacked persistently by the savage marauding military of French Cameroun with the help of this illicit chief. He has successfully worked with his well recruited malicious team of informants to ensure proper coordination and execution of a series of invasions leading to gruesome extrajudicial killings of those he considers are in support of the Southern Cameroons cause. Some of these evil invasions have resulted in extensive damage to homes, properties, and the loss of many lives.

Civil society organizations operating in and out of the Southern Cameroons have taken the responsibility and challenge to file a series of evidence-based reports to international humanitarian institutions and agencies against Chief Mbi Oru has one of the representatives of Paul Biya’s oppressive and repugnant regime. Michael Mbi Oruh is perpetrating genocide, systematic ethnic cleansing, and other forms of crimes against humanity in Southern Cameroons and the long arm of justice is on his case.

Ambazonian Restoration forces have decided to take tougher actions against self-imposed colonial chiefs like Mbi Oruh, currently orchestrating and facilitating French Cameroun’s military extermination activities in Manyu County and other Ambazonian communities. Ambazonian Restoration Forces have now not only banned Chief Michael Mbi Oruh from entering any part of Ambazonia including Mkpot village, they have also reaffirmed their determination and commitment to take the sword to Chief Mbi Oruh and his cronies currently hiding in Yaoundé and other French Cameroun cities.

Except for those who prefer to negotiate with the evidence, the verdict from Mkpot is overwhelming that Michael Mbi Oruh is a criminal and an enemy of the Ambazonia people. By his actions over the last thirteen years and by being directly linked to numerous executions in his village over the last three years, he has vindicated his credentials as a monument of absurdity and evil. Michael Mbi Oruh is a clear and obvious danger to the people of Mkpot and Ambazonia and he must be brought to justice.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with Intelligence Files from Eyumojock

Cameroon’s President for Life reportedly ends – $610,000 / R9.4 million per annum

Paul Biya’s pay cheque clearly indicates the disparity between the salaries of a dictator versus an elected president. Biya has been Cameroon’s leader since 1982, and earns a figure you’d more expect to see come up in the Powerball jackpot than on a pay slip.

The French Cameroun dictator makes roughly 230 times the average Cameroonian salary, and indeed earns more than other world leaders from developed nations, including France’s Emmanuel Macron.

Source: Cajnewsafrica

President Biya and his French Cameroun political elites are preparing for a second round of negotiations with the leader of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides detained at the Kondengui High Security Prison in Yaoundé. But this time around the regime in Yaoundé needs to get things done and done in a hurry!

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that the Biya regime is negotiating with ammo in its pockets and the Francophone dominated government has awarded its army a hefty budget increase.

President Biya’s chief of staff and other senior members of government have reportedly complicated all steps towards reconciliation with the people of Southern Cameroons and pushed the conflict to play into the hands of government hardliners. However, recent Russia troop’s deployment to the Central African Republic has sent panic signals to Yaoundé.

The Central African Republic (CAR) recently declared that Russia and Rwanda have deployed hundreds of troops to the nation following an alleged French sponsored military coup plot ahead of this week’s key presidential and legislative elections.

“Russia has sent several hundred soldiers and heavy weapons” within the framework of a bilateral cooperation agreement, CAR’s government spokesman Ange Maxime Kazagui announced on Monday, adding,  “The Rwandans have also sent several hundred men who are on the ground and have started fighting,”

A number of planes from Russia, an ally of CAR’s President Faustin-Archange Touadera, landed in the country over the weekend, Reuters reported Monday, citing unidentified sources.

The presence of Russian troops in the Central African Republic is an indication that France is slowly but surely losing its grip on the CEMAC region. Correspondingly, the Cameroon Francophone army over the last four years has been struggling to find a way out of the war in Southern Cameroons with a Commander-in-Chief who continues to rely on a small set of generals and military advisors from his Beti-Ewondo tribal extraction.

By Isong Asu and Chi Prudence Asong

We, associations of English-speaking journalists and defenders of woman’s rights, condemn the verbal assault and insults by the SDF Chairman, Mr John Fru Ndi, on two journalists, including a woman, during a press conference in Yaounde on December 12, 2020, as reported by The Guardian Post No. 2034 of December 14, 2020, and demand an immediate apology from him.

The party Chairman’s utterances gave a sense of the same condemnable attitude of undermining the Press, a vital corps in the socio-political and socio-economic development of society by politicians in power and those still in the opposition.

We have keenly listened to an audio clip of the entire press conference circulating on social media and we heard our colleague, Ebenezer Akanga, who works for CRTV, the state TV broadcaster, ask the Chairman whether he did not think his party ought to share in the blame for the electoral predicament his party was deploring at the press conference.

As the watchdogs of society and mediators of the socio-political landscape with a duty to hold public personalities to account, we simply expected the SDF Chairman to admit Akanga’s claim or deny it with explanations. We are shocked at his bad-tempered response and the uncivil badmouthing of our colleagues. Nothing in the audio recording of the press conference suggested nor justified Fru Ndi’s “shut up your mouth, shut up your mouth” assault on our colleague.

Protesting the incident, our colleague, Franklin Sone Bayen, Executive Secretary of both CReAM (Come and Redeem Anglophone Media Practice) and CiJA (Courage in Journalism Awards) says, “A  politician who tells a journalist to shut up would shut up journalists by locking them up if such a politician ever got to power.” That is disquieting to us.

Commenting on the brawl, Akanga says, “I felt humiliated to be insulted in public and infront of my colleagues simply for asking a question as a journalist. At my own small level, I have decided that I will not go to cover any activity of the SDF again.”

 Reacting  to another incident at the same press conference where Fru Ndi described a female journalist, Annie Babele who works for The Post newspaper, as “very ugly”, our colleague, Commy Mussa, CEO of a women’s rights organization, Sisterspeak237, says by so doing the SDF Chairman knowingly or unknowingly promoted “the tradition of denigrating women in media by criticizing their appearance rather than their work.

“Such attacks can reinforce gender norms, create pressure for women to present themselves attractively (with “attractiveness” defined by men, of course), and even persuade  some women to stay out of the public sphere altogether,” Mussa underscored.

“Verbal abuse from a top ranking personality on a fellow woman irrespective of the circumstances and context, is totally unacceptable because it is from them that we expect to see  good examples.”

While still evaluating the possible short-term and long-term consequences of the Chairman’s action on our corps and on the said individuals and considering any action we may take in the future, we demand an immediate apology from Chairman Fru Ndi to the individuals and the Press Corps in general and hope this type of arrogance towards the Press will cease forthwith.

Done in Yaounde, this 16th day of December 2020

Signed:

-Cameroon Association of English-speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ)

-Cameroon Community Media Network (CCMN)

-Come and Redeem Anglophone Media Practice (CReAM)

-Courage in Journalism Awards (CiJA)

-Association of Combined Action to Protect and Empower Journalists (ACAPEJ)

Returnees displaced people of Kembong have reasons to smile this Christmas notwithstanding the precarious situation in Cameroon that has brought untold suffering to the poor and guiltless.

Kembong was the first major settlement to experience the burning down of homes and its inhabitants were the first to escape into the bushes for fear of their lives. This prompted Eyum Anneh & Co., a German based NGO to start the Kembong Relief Initiative.

This ingenuity brought some concerned Kembong indigenes and friends of Kembong in Germany to a collaboration of relief support for the troubled people.

To this outcome, the managing director of Eyum Anneh & Co., Mr Tanyi Tambendiparrah sincerely expresses his profound gratitude to all participants, supporters, especially to those who open-handedly donated their widow´s mite ´towards this relief support. We are indeed deeply grateful for all the support directed towards this effort, be it financial, material, moral or otherwise.

Immense thanks to our partner in Cameroon ETAYA NGO and the director Mr Tanyi Felix, who in cooperation made it possible for the relief to get to affected population. We equally extend gratitude to the Kembong family meeting in Buea, state officials and Mrs Ayukakpa Pauline who accompanied the delivery to Kembong. Many thanks to the Diocese of Mamfe, especially Rev. Father Tanyi Tabeson, Rev. Father Vuni, the Kembong Catholic church for assisting in the distribution of the relief support. And to many of you whose names we can´t mention here.

We are gratified that the distribution was done according to plan, irrespective of age, gender, religious or political orientation.

This consignment comprised basic life´s need (clothes, salt, sugar, flour, cooking oil, rice, play kits, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, skin cream, toilet paper, disinfectants, first, toiletries, detergents, etc) gives them hope, peace of mind particularly as they understand that they are not alone in moments of difficulty and each of them is happy with whatever he / she received irrespective of the quantity and quality.

This write-up is an Eyum Anneh & Co. production